From the Work Blogs…

On The Farm, the Tucows programming-in-general blog:

• CocoaDialog

  – a command-line app that you can call from shell scripts / other

  command-line apps to display standard dialog boxes. Good for giving

  your interactive command-line apps a Mac-like UI with very little work

  on your part.

• Two articles on the book Higher-Order Perl,

  a book on writing Perl frameworks that generate functions. I point to

  both the book’s site and an interview with the author of Higher-Order Perl, Mark Jason Dominus.

• MySQL Cheat Sheet. SELECT * FROM MySQL_Reference_Material WHERE usefulness = 100;!
• Python Code Snippets for Nokia Series 60 Phones. Writing apps for these phones is easier than you think.
• Mac OS X “Tiger” Release Date — April 29th. Yeah, I’m going to be at my local Apple retailer that day.
• mir.aculo.us and prototype

  — one’s a weblog with some awesome JavaScript/DHTML code; the other is

  a useful library for JavaScript/DHTML apps. There’s also some mention

  of Ruby on Rails.

• Continuations for Curmudgeons. Quite possibly the clearest explanation of continuations I’ve seen.

On IndieGameDev, the blog for independent game developers:

• Mouse Ray Picking Explained. “There

  comes a time in every 3D game where the user needs to click on

  something in the scene. Maybe he needs to select a unit in an RTS, or

  open a door in an RPG, or delete some geometry in a level editing tool.

  This conceptually simple task is easy to screw up since there are so

  many little steps that can go wrong.”

• TheoWorlds Isometric Flash Game SDKs. Toolkits for building isometric games and chatrooms in Flash, a la Habbo Hotel.

In the Blogware blog:

• Ryerson Review of Journalism on Blogging and Journalism.

  A well known J-school’s magazine (produced by graduating journalism

  students) takes a look at the intersection of blogging and journalism.